Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 305 g
ISBN: 978-90-481-4721-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
As drought tolerance is a multidirnensional stress, drought tolerance study is a multidisciplinary adventure. In 1992, the network INTERDROUGHT was created with the objective of joining the scientists of the different fields of research involved in drought tolerance study. The network was funded by the EEC and gathered 25 European teams specialized in molecular biology, physiology and geneties. 1\vo workshops were successively organized in 1993 in Sitges (Spain) and in 1994 in Ischia (Italy). After those two European workshops, the necessity of opening the network to the whole scientific community was already clear, and in 1995 the first INTERDROUGHT international conference was held in Montpellier (France). During this meeting, eleven speakers were invited to present a review in their field of research, in a way accessible to all researchers and students, especially those who are not familiar wlth one of the three fields of interest. These eleven reviews are presented in this book. From these reviews three major difficulties arose for drought tolerance irnprovement: - the definition of the drought stress that plants experience; -the differentiation between non adaptive and adaptive response to drought stress; -the identification of the adaptive responses that improved drought yield without decreasing significantly the potential yield. The use of integrated strategies of research will certainly provide irnportant results, such as the recent data obtained on molecular and physiologieal analysis of Arabidopsis mutants.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biochemie (nichtmedizinisch)
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenphysiologie, Photosynthese
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierphysiologie
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Phytotomie, Pflanzenmorphologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Drought and drought tolerance.- The diversity of drought adaptation in the wide.- Drought perception by plants. Do cells of droughted plants experience water stress?.- Drought signal transduction in plants.- Responses of plants to dehydration stress: a molecular analysis.- Plant cellular responses to water deficit.- Mutants as tools to understand cellular and molecular drought tolerance mechanisms.- Crop responses to drought and the interpretation of adaptation.- Drought as a challenge for the plant breeder.- Defining selection criteria to improve yield under drought.- New molecular tools to improve the efficiency of breeding for increased drought resistance.
